Our top 10 Post-War + Contemporary Moments of 2013:

was a key moment in the Post-War and Contemporary art market. For the first time an artwork in our field sold for over $100 million and we had seven active bidders at this figure. The fact that it achieved the highest price of any object in auction history was a reflection of this unique conversation between two 20th century masters of figuration, who happen to be British. The intensity and drama of their friendship and rivalry was matched by the story of the painting itself being split up in the 1970s and reunited sometime in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. This was an extremely powerful and rare painting, which sent shivers up my spine every time I encountered it. It thoroughly deserves its place at the top of the auction market.